Brush-making machine



June 5, 1923.

'A. E. SILANDER BRUSH MAKING MACHINE Filed July 25 1921 Patented June 5,1923. Q g i Y UNITED STATES PATENT @FFHQE.

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BRUSH-MAKING MACHINE. 7 Application filed .luly 25, 1921. Serial No. 487,481.

To all whom it may concem: 6 so that it can be reciprocated thereon un- Be it known that I, ARTHUR EFRAIM SI- der the bristle distributor. The runway or LANDER, a citizen of the Republic of Finrunways are connected to slides g by land, residing at Berlin, Germany, have inmeans of which they are guided in vertical vented certain new and useful Improvegrooves in the machine frame 29 so that the 40 ments Relating to Brush-Making Machines frame a can be held parallel with the bristle (for which I have filed applications inGerdistributor and so that its altitude can be many March 30, 1920, and Finland Dec. 20, varied relative to the same; For this pur- 1920), and of which the following is a specipose the runways are supported by screw. fication. spindles g and by nuts f on rigid brackets r 45 The present invention relates to a brush secured to the machine frame. The nuts f and like making machine of the kind in consist of worm wheels which are en aged which a reciprocating table is used for movby worms t connected to shafts I). here ing the brush stocks or a template under an are four sets of shafts and spindles, and oscillating bristle distributor, means being they are all operated by a common regulat- 50 provided for varying, the altitude of the ing shaft through the medium of a hand table relative to the distributor. wheel 8 and bevel gears it Thus all the nuts- The object of the invention is to ensure a will move in unison so as to maintain the perfect adjustment of the table, it being frame parallel to the bristle distributor in necessary that it should remain parallel all positions of vertical adjustment.- 5'

with the bristle distributor in whateveralti- I claim e tude it is placed, and the invention consists in A reciprocating table for brush andlike supporting the table on a runway adapted making machines, comprising a frame, slidto be adjusted by means of screw spindles able runners connected to said frame, runand nuts which latter are operated in uniways supporting the frame by means of the 6 son by worm wheels for eflecting the adjustrunners, vertically guided slides holdingthe ment. The. table, moreover, is adapted to runways, supporting brackets, screw spinslide on runners so that a perfectly straight dles guided, in said brackets and connected movement is ensured. to said slides, nuts arranged on said spin- Fig. l of the drawings represents a diadles so as to support the slides on the 65 gram of the gears, and Fig. 2,'is a front elebrackets, and means for operating said nuts vation of the complete device. in unison so as to vary the altitude of the The brush stock or a template is supframe relative to the brackets while mainported in a frame a which is itself suptaining itparallel to its original plane.

ported on a runway o by means of runners ARTHUR-EFRAIM SILANDE'R'. 

